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The Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal, July 2017, Volume 11, Number 2

The Wagner Journal, July 2017, Volume 11, Number 2

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Format

Special ‘Freud and Parsifal’ issue in association with The Freud Museum

 

Features 

Ivan Ward, Parsifal as Castration Drama

Tom DeRose, Wagner, Freud and Nietzsche in Berlin 

Stephen Gee, Wagner’s Parsifal: A Hymn of Purity and Danger 

Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo (extract) 

Eva Rieger, Kundry’s Kiss and the Fear of Female Desire: A Gender Perspective 

Mark Berry, Interpreting Wagner’s Dreams: Staging Parsifal in the Twenty-first Century

Patrick Carnegy, Syberberg’s Parsifal and the Soul of Germany

 

Reviews (live performances)

Club Rules Apply: Covent Garden’s new Meistersinger doesn’t deliver on its promise, feels Barry Millington

Houston, We have a Problem: Barry Millington is thrilled by a new opera about the Wagner legacy

Questions, Questions: Michael Fuller is stimulated by the issues raised in two productions of Lohengrin

Tristan und Tristan: Matthew Rye couldn’t resist the opportunity to experience Tristan und Isolde two nights running, but the rivalry between two neighbouring Ruhr houses brought differing rewards

 

Reviews (DVDs)

Not Taking it Seriously: Roland Matthews feels short-changed by a production of Wagner’s early comedy

 

Reviews (books)

Seeing and Believing: Tom DeRose contrasts an unorthodox psychoanalytic reading of Parsifal with a more orthodox account

Wagnerian Secrets: Arnold Whittall assesses two books that grapple with Nietzsche’s rejection of Wagnerism

Putting on an Act: Star billing fails to redeem a skittish guide to Wagner, finds Niall Hoskin

A Role Model for Senta? Fred Bridgham examines a study of parallels between Wagner and Kleist

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